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cyan · cool

#43ccaf

a balanced, vivid cyan · cool · closest name: Medium Aqua Marine

Token name suggestion: Atlas Lagoon

RGB
67, 204, 175
HSL
167°, 57%, 53%
CMYK
67, 0, 14, 20
Luminance
0.4747

#43ccaf is a balanced vivid cyan, 167° on the wheel and 82/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (10.49:1). As text it scores 2.00:1 on white — use #248570 instead. Nearest name is Medium Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(167 57% 53%)rgb(67 204 175)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #43ccaf is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#43ccaf
Hue
167°
cyan
Saturation
57%
vivid
Lightness
53%
balanced
Brightness
80%
HSV value
Perceived
67%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4747
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
82/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
10.49:1
Closest name
Medium Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 3.6
Chroma
43.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.764
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 6.4
Web-safe
#33CC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue167° of 360°
Saturation57%
Lightness53%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #43ccaf.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool82% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red3%
Green91%
Blue7%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#43ccaf
HEX (8-digit)#43ccafff
RGBrgb(67, 204, 175)
RGBArgba(67, 204, 175, 1)
HSLhsl(167, 57%, 53%)
HSV / HSBhsv(167, 67%, 80%)
HWBhwb(167 26% 20%)
CMYKcmyk(67%, 0%, 14%, 20%)
LABlab(74.5 -43.5 3.8)
LCHlch(74.5 43.7 175.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.764 0.124 175.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(31.64, 47.47, 48.04)
Decimal4443311
Display P3color(display-p3 0.263 0.800 0.686)
Web-safe#33CC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #43ccaf;
background-color: #43ccaf;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #43ccaf;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#43ccaf] bg-[#43ccaf]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #43ccaf;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.263, green: 0.800, blue: 0.686)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.263, green: 0.800, blue: 0.686, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#43CCAF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF43CCAF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF43CCAF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(175, 204, 67)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(67, 204, 175)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(67, 204, 175)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 67, 204, 175)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2627f, 0.8000f, 0.6863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{67,204,175}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #43ccaf 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #43ccaf 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#1B6455, #D3EEE8);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #43ccaf h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #F4FBF9;
  --brand-100: #E9F7F4;
  --brand-200: #CDEFE7;
  --brand-300: #A7E7D9;
  --brand-400: #7BDBC7;
  --brand-500: #43ccaf;
  --brand-600: #34C1A3;
  --brand-700: #2CA088;
  --brand-800: #23806D;
  --brand-900: #1D5D50;
  --brand-950: #123A32;
  --brand: #43ccaf;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE3;
  --brand-hover: #32B99C;
  --brand-pressed: #2B9D85;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142421;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE8;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FBF9',
        100: '#E9F7F4',
        200: '#CDEFE7',
        300: '#A7E7D9',
        400: '#7BDBC7',
        500: '#43ccaf',
        600: '#34C1A3',
        700: '#2CA088',
        800: '#23806D',
        900: '#1D5D50',
        950: '#123A32',
        DEFAULT: '#43ccaf',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FBF9,
  '100': #E9F7F4,
  '200': #CDEFE7,
  '300': #A7E7D9,
  '400': #7BDBC7,
  '500': #43ccaf,
  '600': #34C1A3,
  '700': #2CA088,
  '800': #23806D,
  '900': #1D5D50,
  '950': #123A32,
);
$brand-base: #43ccaf;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FBF9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E9F7F4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CDEFE7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A7E7D9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#7BDBC7", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#43ccaf", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#34C1A3", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#2CA088", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#23806D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1D5D50", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#123A32", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#000000 on #43ccaf · 10.49:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.00:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 10.49:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #43ccaf as text scores 2.00:1 on white and 10.49:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #1B6455 at 3.50:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#248570 · 4.50:1
AA on white−20% L
#248570
The quick fox
#1A6152 · 7.30:1
AAA on white−29% L
#1A6152
The quick fox
#43ccaf · 10.49:1
AA on blackalready passes
#43ccaf
The quick fox
#43ccaf · 10.49:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#43ccaf

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #2DA58B is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#43ccaf on white: 2.00:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#43ccaf on black: 10.49:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #43ccaf as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #43ccaf.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.00:1AaAa
Slate 501.91:1AaAa
Slate 1001.83:1AaAa
Slate 2001.62:1AaAa
Slate 3001.35:1AaAa
Slate 4001.28:1AaAa
Slate 5002.38:1AaAa
Slate 6003.79:1AaAa
Slate 7005.17:1AaAa
Slate 8007.31:1AaAa
Slate 9008.92:1AaAa
Black10.49:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C5BFAE
deuteranopia · #B2B1B1
tritanopia · #00CFC3

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #43ccaf is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F4FBF9
#E9F7F4
#CDEFE7
#A7E7D9
#7BDBC7
#43ccaf
#34C1A3
#2CA088
#23806D
#1D5D50
#123A32
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F4FBF9Darkest = 950 · #123A32Text step on white = 800
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.031 175.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.050 175.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.075 175.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.097 175.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.114 175.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.124 175.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.124 175.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.117 175.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.104 175.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.087 175.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.068 175.7);
}

Colors that work with #43ccaf

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#F4FAF9
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDE3
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B8A
Captions on the surface
Accent#D13E82
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#1B6455
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EBFAF6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142421
Dark-mode background
Hover#32B99C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#2B9D85
Two steps down
Disabled#B2CDC8
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#48DBBC
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #43ccaf

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #1B6455
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #2DA58B

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

cleantechnicalfreshclinical

Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

At high lightness it disappears into white surfaces and thin strokes vanish entirely.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight47/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#CC4360
Analogous left#43CC6A
Analogous right#43A4CC
Split-complement 1#CC43A4
Split-complement 2#CC6A43
Triadic 1#AF43CC
Triadic 2#CCAF43
Tetradic#6A43CC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°167°

#43ccaf sits at 167°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red26.3%
Green80.0%
Blue68.6%
R · 0–255
67
0x43
G · 0–255
204
0xcc
B · 0–255
175
0xaf

CMYK percentages

Cyan67.2%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow14.2%
Key (black)20.0%

Total ink coverage is 101%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#43ccaf text on a black background

contrast 10.49:1

Card sample

#43ccaf text on a white background

contrast 2.00:1

Card sample

#43ccaf on grey

1.83:1

#43ccaf on its own surface

1.90:1

#43ccaf on its dark surface

8.05:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #43ccaf;
Background color
Panel with #43ccaf background
background-color: #43ccaf;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #43ccaf;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(67, 204, 175, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(67, 204, 175, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #43ccaf;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #43ccaf, #438ECC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #43ccaf, #436BCC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #43ccaf;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #43ccaf;
caret-color: #43ccaf;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #43ccaf;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EBFAF6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #43ccaf;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#43ccaf 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #43ccaf over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(67, 204, 175, 0.5)
rgb(67 204 175 / 50%)
#43ccaf80
hsl(167 57% 53% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #43ccaf 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#43ccaf1a#ECFAF7
20%#43ccaf33#D9F5EF
40%#43ccaf66#B4EBDF
60%#43ccaf99#8EE0CF
80%#43ccafcc#69D6BF

Gradients from #43ccaf

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #73D9C3, #43ccaf 45%, #1B6455);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #43ccaf, #3373BD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #43ccaf, #CC4360);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #8BE0CE 0%, #43ccaf 45%, #1B6455 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF9, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #6BD781 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #5BA6D2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #1B6455 0%, transparent 65%), #43ccaf;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #43ccaf

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#43ccaf in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
TechnologyTravelHealthcareMedia
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 10.49:1.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#43ccaf, answered

What color is #43ccaf?

#43ccaf is a balanced vivid cyan, closest to Medium Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 3.6). It sits at 167° on the hue wheel with 57% saturation and 53% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #43ccaf?

rgb(67, 204, 175) — 67 red, 204 green and 175 blue out of 255, or 26.3% / 80% / 68.6% by channel.

What is #43ccaf in HSL and HSV?

hsl(167, 57%, 53%) and hsv(167, 67%, 80%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #43ccaf a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4747 and perceived brightness is 67%, so black text on it reaches 10.49:1.

Should I use black or white text on #43ccaf?

Black. It scores 10.49:1 against #43ccaf, versus 2.00:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #43ccaf accessible on a white background?

#43ccaf on white scores 2.00:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #248570 to reach 4.5:1, or #1A6152 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #43ccaf?

#CC4360 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #CC43A4 and #CC6A43, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #43ccaf?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C0EDE3 for borders, #4B9B8A for secondary text, #D13E82 as an accent and #1B6455 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #43CC6A and #43A4CC stays calm, while #CC4360 is the loudest partner.

What is #43ccaf in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(67%, 0%, 14%, 20%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #43ccaf warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 82 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #43CC7D; nudged cooler, #40B8CE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #43ccaf?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 6.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #43ccaf as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #43ccaf in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#43ccaf] or text-[#43ccaf], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #43ccaf with 50% opacity?

rgba(67, 204, 175, 0.5), or #43ccaf80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #A1E6D7; over black, #226658.

Is #43ccaf a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33CC99, ΔE2000 5.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #43ccaf mean?

As a cyan, it reads clean, technical, fresh. Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #43ccaf?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #73D9C3, #43ccaf 45%, #1B6455). For more colour, a short hue run to #3373BD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #43ccaf in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #43ccaf at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.